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“All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.” quote by John Ruskin — Download Open image

“All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.”

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“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre of them. And the guilty Thieves of Europe, the real sources of all deadly war in it, are the Capitalists”

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Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

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Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows…

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As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.

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I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average…

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When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look…

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It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper…

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It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an…

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“You may trust to the truth of my sympathy; but you must remember that I am engaged in the investigation of enormous religious and moral questions, in the history of nations; and that your feelings, or my own, or anybody else's, at any particular moment, are of very little interest to me,--not from want of sympathy, but from the small…

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And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

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It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.

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The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because…

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